Sharing some updates on the changes we've seen since March. No sugar-coating, just the facts:
- More time at home with a solid block of 10 days off every month, plus 2 extra for travel.
- Salaries have gone up for cadets, FOs, and CPTs.
- Extra fees for TRI, TRE, and GI got higher as well
- We all (cabin and flight crew) in a number of bases have access to UBER/BOLT Business accounts now, We call our own taxi and we don’t depend anymore on Crew Travel- simple and so easy
- As of now, Instructors are booking their own flights through the internal system, and there's talk of extending that to everyone.
- Communication with OCC and Crew Travel is improving, but there's still work to be done.
Now, regarding base assignments, it’s hard to comment on that as the projects are changing every year.
As far as I know, the priority is given to local crew as much as possible, with exceptions if the base is mostly for ICAO pilots, Line Trainings….